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The US Supreme Court will next month begin hearing an appeal brought by the US Government against a verdict which Microsoft obtained in a case involving emails stored on a server in Ireland.

Google has managed to squirrel away €15.9 billion (US$19.2 billion) in a Bermuda shell company in 2016, helping the search behemoth to avoid paying at least US$3.7 billion in taxes, according to regulatory filings in the Netherlands.

Apple and Ireland have reached a deal on terms for an escrow fund for a €13 billion (US$17.6 billion) fine imposed by the European Union in August last year, with the money to stay in the fund while both the tech firm and Dublin appeal the EU's verdict.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by the government against the verdict in a case where Microsoft had obtained a ruling allowing it to prevent the government accessing emails stored on a server in Ireland.

The European Union is likely to chastise Ireland for failing to collect a fine of €13 billion (US$17.6 billion) from Apple which was announced on 29 August last year.

Google is coming under renewed pressure from the US Government in a case over its refusal to turn over email stored abroad in response to a warrant from the Department of Justice.

Facebook has told a standing committee of the Australian Senate that it booked a vast majority of its Australian income for 2016 outside the country.

Security firm Symantec claims to have evidence that a new wave of attacks is taking aim at energy targets in Europe and North America with the intention of affecting operations.

France has asked Microsoft to pay €600 million (US$715 million) in what it claims are back-taxes owed by the American software giant for billing local customers from Ireland.

A senior member of the Australian Senate has accused Google of misleading one of its committees about the extent of the search company's earnings in Australia.

Microsoft has used regional sales units in Ireland, Singapore and Puerto Rico to build up a cash stash of US$108 billion outside the US, according to court papers that have emerged during a case between the software giant and the US Internal Revenue Service.

Apple has filed a list of 14 objections with the European Court of Appeals, saying that the European Commission's decision to slap it with a €13 billion (A$19.73 billion) bill for back taxes is wrong, violates law and should be withdrawn.

Global software giant SAP has appointed 20-year IT industry veteran Colin Brookes as chief operating officer for its Australia and New Zealand business.

Microsoft has won a major legal victory, with a US court of appeals refusing to hear an appeal from the US Department of Justice into a verdict that said data stored abroad by an American company could not be searched by US authorities.

Apple and Ireland have decided to appeal against the European Union's order in August that the software company pay back taxes of €13 billion (A$19.73 billion).

The US Department of Justice has, as expected, challenged Microsoft's victory in a case where it successfully fought the notion that data held in an overseas location is subject to US court orders.

The European Union's move to demand that Apple pay €13 billion in back taxes was sparked by an investigation that began initially in the US, according to EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook is keeping people guessing as to whether the company will repatriate its massive pile of cash stashed outside the US or leave things as they are.

Apple faces a record tax bill after the European Union ordered it to repay €13 billion (A$19.73 billion), having found that a number of deals the company cut to do business in Ireland were illegal.

Apple is set to face a challenge in its dealings with Ireland, with the European Union's anti-trust regulator to rule soon that the company's tax deals with Dublin are in violation of the EU's rules, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.